Value of ISO standardization from Dave Cramer on 2017-05-09 (public-publishingbg@w3.org from May 2017)

From: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 11:45:59 -0400
To: public-publishingbg@w3.org
Message-ID: <CADxXqOwBDGQ7WuHY5LEBXXK0G7eJS9cg0M1KYXm8GsgRa8QYLw@mail.gmail.com>

Could someone help explain the value of ISO standardization for EPUB 3.1?

EPUB2 did well without being an ISO standard. HTML5 does not appear to
be an ISO standard, and may be one of the most ubiquitous document
formats in the history of the world (as well as being the heart of
EPUB). No CSS standards appear to be part of ISO. The business group
does not have consensus on whether EPUB 3.1 should be brought to ISO.

So why do we want to standardize things that are already standards? :)

Dave

Received on Tuesday, 9 May 2017 15:46:36 UTC